RURAL NEW-YORKER 
249 
narrowest kind of an escape. lie was 
riding with a friend in the latter's new 
car and it came on late and foggy and 
very dark and raining in torrents. The 
man suggested that I take the car but 
he seemed to be getting along all right. 
Then, on its coming on very dark I did 
take it for a while. Rut I got out for 
an errand and as the fog had lifted 
somewhat, he .said he would drive her 
home. The trolley track was right along 
beside the road and soon 1 no*^'ced that 
as the track drew away from .he road 
he had followed along between tin r.ails. 
"When he stopjied there was no I lling 
between the rails and a steep bank down 
to the roadbed. “I will run back and 
stop that trolley we saw on the turn 
out." he said, “while you get her off the 
track." But I had hardly gotten her 
hackl’d up when I saw the trolley head 
light Hash by me and heard it coming at 
top speed. On the wet rails the brakes 
many other similar groups in New York 
State which show the fine human stock 
for which our rural counties are remark¬ 
able. 
The oldest son, Frank Clark, and his 
wife Grace^ Searle Clark, have two daugh¬ 
ters. Marion, now Mrs. Monroe Gere 
and ^lildred Clark. Mr. Elbert and 
Mrs. Isadore Clark Conklin, three sons 
and one daughter. Matthew, the oldest 
of all the children. Marguerite, now Mrs. 
Charles Axtmann of Ohio. Elbert, .Tr., 
and Clark Conklin, ^Ir. Ernest and Mrs. 
Hannah Knowles Clark, four girls and 
five boys: Irlaver . Robert. Isadore, 
Evelyn (Maynard and Leonard) twins, 
Esther, .John and Elmore Clark. Mr. 
Grant and Mrs. Grace Clark Ilitchings, 
two daughters and four sons; Raymond. 
Harold, Edna, Warren, Malcolm and 
Clarion Ilitchings. 
Among these, after the lapse of four 
years, are college graduates and those 
now in college, high .school and the low¬ 
er grades; one civil engineer, one taking 
the art course, another teachers’ course, 
others agriculture, specializing in vege¬ 
table growth, also fruit culture. Each 
A Rural Family of New York 
had not had the slightest elTeot on the 
heavy double truck car. I must have 
made one supr<>me effort for when the 
crash came, I had gotten the four wheels 
of the auto off the track and the car 
struck her right in the back a slanting 
blow. It swung the auto round and 
down the bank and damaged her badly, 
but when they came running to pick up 
the pieces, the Pa.'jtoral I’ars<ui was high 
and dry on the seat, still holding on the 
wheel and the engine was still run¬ 
ning! While I seenu'd to be lamenting 
over the car. the owner nearly went into 
hysterics with joy over seeing me alive. 
Why Such a Tkip. —.lust this minute 
as I write I look out of the window and 
there is going by a woman and her lit¬ 
tle boy afoot toward town. I know 
them. They have come for five miles in 
a terribly biting wind and the mercury 
this minute eight above. I hurry to call 
them in to get warm, but they are too 
far down the road. She keeps turning 
round and calling to the boy—he looks 
all pinched and frozen. She was in town 
yesterday with a team—why come in 
again today and with the boy? What 
have they come for? I don’t know, I 
don’t know. We are all watching to 
stop them on the return and ir ke them 
come in and eat and bo warinec. But 
the sight of the boy has all up.set me. 
Thank heaven that on one of my trips, 
I took him that fairly warm suit he has 
on. 
and every one of the 21 is bright and 
line in every way. a credit to tlndr proud 
grandmother. 
An Old-time Friend 
I <-onsider Thk R. X.-Y. one of my old 
friends, as I knew it when it was 
Mookk’s Rtkal New-Yokkkr, and have 
taken it most of the time since. Now 
though I am past three score and ten 
and have only a large village lot, I still 
enjoy it. and its bold and firm stand for 
the uplift of the masses and the producer 
in particular. As I remarked to a friend 
a .short time since: “The R. X.-Y. gets 
right down and talks tcith you instead 
of (it you as nearly all other papers do." 
Hope Farm Notes in the last issue 
touched a tender spot with me. We cau 
ask why was Louise taken, but as we 
cannot hear the reply, can only say, 
“Lord, Thy will be done,” and trust that 
bye and bye we will see as we are seen 
and know as we are known. 
('IIA.S. BENNINGTON. 
Otsego Co., X. Y. 
R. X.-Y.—It would be hard to give 
bettor expression to the difference be¬ 
tween true teaching and ordinary preach¬ 
ing. Few men can stand to be preached 
at without a feeling of resentment. 
When one can talk with you he gets 
into your own thought and language, 
and that is where you live and learn 
and love. 
A Rural New-Yorker Family Group 
That is a remarkable picture shown 
on this page with grandmother in the 
center and the 21 grandchildren grouped 
about her. We have seldom seen a more 
.striking or beautiful picture of a group 
of this sort. Mr.s. Clark, who is the 
grandmother in this picture, is a life¬ 
long resident of Onondaga Valley, X. Y. 
The children are the families of her 
daughters and .sons. They are all resi¬ 
dents of Onondaga Valley, and range in 
ages from 20 years to the baby, a little 
fellow about two years old. The fol¬ 
lowing statement is made by one who 
knows the family well, and it must be a 
wonderful comfort and pride to Mrs. 
Clark to find herself surrounded by this 
fine group of young people. There are 
Fine Old Pennsylvania Stock 
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scrii)tion. though your print is too fine 
for S4-year-old eyes. I don't bother much 
about farming, though I still bivouac on 
the old farm, the third generation. Of 215 
voters in our township in 1850, of which 
I have a tally sheet, just three survive, 
so far as I know, two first cousins and a 
neighboring “boy." But at the same time 
I can count 30 of us public school mates 
still living. Girls didn’t vote. We h,ave 
one lady not far off, 103 years old. and in 
the same town, Jesse C. Gi'een, just 
rounding out his 100 years, supple and 
bright. Each of these broke a limb with¬ 
in the last two years, and recovered. 
They can't do that well up in New York. 
Pennsylvania. wm. t. smedley. 
R. X.-Y.—It is now the thing for some 
community in New York to equal this 
record! We \vill include any other com¬ 
munity in the country. The generation 
which Mr. Smedley belongs to was hard 
to beat for health and hardiness. We 
have heard people say they would not care 
to live to be SO years old, but that was 
because they feared the body would wear 
out and leave them helpless before that 
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